I start writing, pull whatever images happen to occur to me and make up a story, instead of starting with details that are real and I know of and going from there.
John DarnielleBack in the 90s, if you did mail order in music, you could make a good living doing it if you could hustle.
John DarnielleNorth Carolina was on the vanguard of being for [ trans rights ], and that's why we're seeing this push back. The conservatives noticed that there had been a lot of progress and they tried to tamp it down.
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